MIAMI, FL. An inspector visiting Tacology at 700 South Miami Ave on May 15, 2026 found food sourced from unapproved or unknown suppliers, a violation that means no one can trace where the ingredients came from if a customer gets sick. That finding was one of 12 high-severity violations documented in a single visit. The restaurant was not closed.
What Inspectors Found
The 12 high-severity violations covered nearly every critical control point in the kitchen. Inspectors cited employees for not reporting illness symptoms, for inadequate handwashing, and separately for improper handwashing technique, two distinct failures that together describe a kitchen where the most basic contamination barrier was not functioning.
Food contact surfaces were not properly cleaned or sanitized. Food was not cooked to required minimum temperatures. Time as a public health control was not properly applied, meaning food was allowed to sit in the bacterial growth zone without adequate tracking.
The restaurant also lacked a consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods, meaning customers ordering anything served rare or raw had no posted warning. Toxic chemicals were cited in two separate violations: improper storage or labeling, and improper identification, storage, or use. Both citations appeared on the same inspection report.
A person in charge was either absent or not performing duties during the visit.
What These Violations Mean
The food-from-unapproved-sources citation is the one that matters most if a customer later becomes ill. When food arrives through unregulated supply chains, there is no USDA or FDA inspection record attached to it, and no way to trace a contaminated batch back to its origin. That traceability gap is not a paperwork problem. It is the difference between containing an outbreak and losing it.
The illness-reporting failure compounds that risk directly. Food workers who do not report symptoms of illness are the primary transmission route for norovirus, which spreads person to person and can move through a dining room in a single service. The violation means the system designed to pull a sick worker off the line before they contaminate food was not working on the day inspectors arrived.
Undercooking is a separate and immediate danger. Salmonella in poultry survives below 165 degrees Fahrenheit. When minimum cooking temperatures are not met, the kill step that food safety protocols depend on does not happen. The inadequate shell stock records cited at Tacology add a second traceability gap specifically for shellfish, which are consumed raw or lightly cooked and are among the highest-risk foods for hepatitis A and Vibrio infections.
Two toxic-chemical violations in a single inspection describe a kitchen where hazardous substances were not segregated from food preparation areas, not properly identified, or both.
The Longer Record
The May 15 inspection was not an anomaly. Tacology has 27 inspections on record and 274 total violations across that history. The eight most recent inspections before May 15 each produced high-severity citations, including nine high-severity violations in October 2024, eight in April 2024, and eight more in January 2024.
The pattern in those prior visits mirrors what inspectors found in May. High-severity violations have appeared in every single inspection going back through 2024 and into 2025. The restaurant has never been emergency-closed.
The day after the May 15 inspection, a follow-up visit on May 16 found four high-severity violations and two intermediate violations still present. That follow-up result means that even after inspectors had documented 12 high-severity findings and the restaurant had been put on notice, four serious violations remained uncorrected the next morning.
Still Open
State records show Tacology was not emergency-closed following the May 15 inspection, despite the 12 high-severity violations that included unapproved food sourcing, undercooking, improper chemical storage, and no illness-reporting system. The restaurant continued serving customers.
The follow-up inspection on May 16 confirmed four high-severity violations remained. That is the last inspection on record.